Citizens for Responsible Constitutional Reform
1901 Alabama Constitution Convention Delegate makeup The 155 delegates who crafted the 1901 constitution included: 96 lawyers, 12 bankers, four journalists. At least 38 Civil War veterans. 62 college graduates and 28 who had at least one year of
college. 45 former state legislators and 17 members of the Legislature
that called the convention. Two former governors, two former attorneys general, two
former state Supreme Court justices. Two future governors and two future U.S. senators. No blacks and no women. For information on Constitutional Development in Alabama,
1798-1901: A Study in Politics, The Negro and Sectionalism by Malcolm C. McMillan (University of North Carolina
Press, 1955). A definitive study on the constitution by an Auburn University historian. ·Populism to Progressivism
in Alabama by Sheldon Hackney (Princeton University
Press, 1969). Hackney, an Alabama native, was a Princeton history professor when he wrote this book on turn-of
the-century politics. ·Poor but Proud by Wayne Flynt (University of Alabama Press, 1989). Flynt is an Auburn
University history professor. ·The Web site of the Alabama
Legislature contains a brief history of the state's six constitutions and their texts, and is adding the debates
from the 1901 constitutional convention. Go to www.legislature.state.al.us/ and click on "History." ·The Web site for Alabama
Citizens for Constitutional Reform, which advocates a new constitution, contains history and recent news on the
subject. Go to www.constitutionalreform.org. © The Birmingham News
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